Félix Fonton: La Russie dans l'Asie Mineure, ou Campagnes du Maréchal Paskévitch en 1828 et 1829.Paris 1840 First edition,in Quarto,contemporary leather over boards,boards trimmed at corners,text clean, some sporadic foxing in few pages, overall in very good condition. Most travelogues of the 1820s focus on the Greek War of Independence in the Mediterranean. Fonton focuses on the parallel Anatolian front, where the Russian army under Ivan Paskévitch successfully invaded the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire and arrived, for the very first time, in Pontic Greek areas, conquering Kars, Erzurum and finally Argyroupolis. It was a complete Greek city in Eastern Anatolia in the 1820s and the center of the Greek area of Haldia (Χαλδία ) in the Inner Pontos. Amazing descriptions of the joy of the Greek inhabitants of Pontos in August 1829 when they welcomed the advancing Russian troops,of the official religious ceremony in the Metropolitan Church of Argyroupoli the 15th of August 1829 with the presence of Russian officials and the panic later that year when the local Greeks realized that after the peace treaty the Russians had to withdraw …Greek modern times presence in Georgia and in the Caucasus has its roots in the Greek populations which left Haldia in 1829 with the Russians and have been settled by them in Caucasus The book explains in details the military pressure that forced the Ottomans to sign the 1829 treaty, which finalized Greek independence.Fonton was a French Diplomat at the Russian General Staff,the concrete account on the expedition is an almost verbatim transcription of a Russian officer s account to the General Staff who was together with Paskevitch military staff during the campaign.Fonton provides high-level insights into the strategy of the Russian General Staff and detailed topographical and geographical descriptions of the Armenian highlands, eastern Anatolia and Pontos,very rarely visited by Europeans that time. He offers extensive observations on the Armenian, Greek, Kurdish, and Turkish populations, discussing how the Russian presence was perceived by these different groups.A unique and very rare account for the eastern Anatolian front of the Greek war of Independence.